A message from John Pettus, Founder and CEO of Fiskkit: Fiskkit is a social good startup elevating our public discourse by allowing readers of online articles comment on individual sentences and tag them for facts and logic. This fall,

This guest post come from our allies in Bosnia and Herzegovina, teachers and journalists, who are seeking funding for the association and to bring their program to classrooms. BE MEDIA LITERATE. BE COOL! By Ana Galić Media Literacy is

By Erin McNeill, Founder, Media Literacy Now Just weeks after Al Franken announced he would resign his Senate seat for his groping ways, a Boston gynecological surgeon thought it would be funny to include in his presentation to a roomf

Teaching Media Literacy skills has been proven to strengthen many aspects of health education; research has proven better decision-making around alcohol, drug, and tobacco use when students' health education includes Media Literacy cri

bdpictures/flickr By Erin McNeill There’s a parable about filling a jar with rocks, pebbles and sand. If you fill the jar with the sand and pebbles first, you can’t get any rocks in. So you put the rocks in first, then the pebbles, the

By Bob Thomas, Education Technology Specialist at Michael Driscoll School, a K-8 school in Brookline, Massachusetts Fake news has been a topic of great interest in the past few months. Recently, I took advantage of the phenomenon and t

By Erin McNeill So, fake news would be the issue that finally raised media literacy in the public consciousness. In the media literacy world, no one had predicted it. Some of us thought the public health issues would be the thing. Alth

By Jared Fesler and Chase Palmieri As the founders of Tribeworthy – two business graduates and a software developer – we may seem an unlikely team to challenge the news media solutions being offered today. In fact, people keep asking,

By Kaari Pitkin, Senior Producer of Radio Rookies Corinne Bobb-Semple reporting her story in Brooklyn. In the ten years I’ve been Senior Producer of WNYC’s Peabody award-winning initiative, Radio Rookies, we’ve worked with hundreds o

The fake news phenomenon has sparked a lot of interest in media literacy solutions. That's the silver lining in what's otherwise a disappointing outcome of the power of internet communication tools. Media Literacy Now has been in the n

This chilling video on radical recruitment techniques will underline for you, in less than two minutes, just how important is universal media literacy. http://qz.com/578052 The Islamic State’s video recruiting campaigns have become inc

Media Literacy is a 21st century approach to education. It provides a framework to access, analyze, evaluate, create and participate with messages in a variety of forms — from print to video to the Internet.